Ma Sandar (; born 4 September 1947) is a well known Burmese writer. With a clear and engaging style, her works reflect the daily struggles of the people living in Myanmar. Her novella, ''Life's Dream, Flower's Dream'' won the 1994

Myanmar National Literature Award Myanmar National Literature Awards () are awards presented to a Burmese author who has published a particularly lauded piece or body of work. There are awards for forms of writing ranging from poetry to novels. Many awards are also dedicated to a ...

for novella. Her short stories collection, ''Short Stories Collection 3'' won the 1999 Myanmar National Literature Award for Collected Short Stories. Another novella, ''Hexagon'' won the 2002 National Literature Award for novella. 10 of her novels have been made into movies.

Early life and education

She was born in

Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...

and attended the Myoma All-Girls High School. She graduated in 1965, and her first short story, ''Me, the Teacher'' was published in a magazine in the same year. She attended

Rangoon Institute of Technology Yangon Technological University (YTU) ( ), located in Insein, Yangon, Myanmar. It is the premier engineering university of Myanmar. Established as Department of Engineering under Rangoon University in 1924, and popularly known by its former nam ...

with a major in architecture. After graduating, she worked in the Ministry of Construction, Architecture Team 2. Her first novel ''Don't Know Because I am Young'' was published in 1972. Throughout her life, she has produced so far, over 100 short short stories and short stories, 2 novellas and 13 novels.

Selected works

Novels

# ''Sum'' # ''Pending of New Green Leaves'' # ''Tomorrow'' # ''Rose'' # ''Cloudy Moon'' # ''Keeping Bad Mood in Mind Silently'' # ''Please Fulfill My Blank'' # ''G Hall Thu'' # ''Circle'' # ''Don't Know Because I Am Young'' # ''Star Flower'' # ''The Shadow''

Novella

# ''Life's Dream, Flower's Dream'' # ''Hexagon''

Short stories

# ''Short Stories Collection 3'' # ''Me, the Teacher''

Awards

* In 1994, National Literary Award for novella * In 1999, Myanmar National Literature Award for Collected Short Stories * In 2002, National Literary Award for novella

References

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